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Wednesday, October 17, 1984
Weather: After a cold morning, look for partly
sunny skies, windy and warmer with a high of
about 50. Wednesday night not as cold with a
slight chance of showers, low about 42. Thurs
day, mostly cloudy, showers moving into the area
gain with a high of about 55.
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University o f Ne b r as k a-L i nc o!n
Vol. 84 No. 39
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Ey G&h Y. Iluey
Dally Nebnuixn SerJcr Reporter
Using an empty chair to represent an
absent Republican Rep. Doug Bereuter,
Democratic congressional challenger
Monica Bauer made light of the incum
bant's insistent refusal to debate with
her.
"He (Bereuter) has refused all oppor
tunities to debate with me," Bauer told an
audience in the Nebraska Union Tuesday.
If Bereuter decided to come, Bauer said
she would reserve the chair for him.
The candidate for the First Congres
.sional District said she challenges Bereuter
jbecause "his record for Nebraska leaves a
lot to be desired." As a minister for the
lUnited Church of Christ in Crete, Bauer
;said she has heard and seen the plight of
family farmers.
More and more farmers are losing their
farms because there isn't any money in
agriculture, she said. Meanwhile, Bereuter
has done little to help the family farmer,
she said.
Bereuter doesn't even sit in the house
of agriculture committee, an important
committee since agriculture is a staple ol
Nebraska, Bauer said.
Instead, Bereuter chooses to sit in the
foreign affairs committee a committee
which he calls powerful, although it dis
cusses agriculture only 25 percent of the
time, she said.
Bereuter claims to have a "flawless"
record in agriculture, Bauer said. Accord-
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Monica Bauer speaks to students
In the Nebraska Union about her .
campaign for the First Congres
sional District representative seat.
She would like to debate her op
ponent, Do?i5 Bereuter, but he has
refused, he said.
ing to numbers from the National Farmers
Union, she said, Bereuter voted against
farmers 59 percent of the time in 1933, 70
percent of the time in 1982 and 50 per
cent of the time in 1 98 1 .
Bauer said Bereuter also has done little
to help senior citizens. Bereuter claims to
help senior citizens, she said; however,
the National Council of Senior Citizens
said he voted against them 80 percent of
the time in 1983, 83 percent of the time in
1982 and 1 CO percent of the time in 1931.
"That's a disgrace," Bauer said. "That's
something we should be ashamed of, not
proud of."
Bereuter has made a career of taking
three sides of every issue, Bauer said. In
contrast, Bauer said she was not "middle-of-the-road"
or "wishy-washy," and that
the public will always know where she
stands.
In providing a solution for the strug
gling farmers, Bauer said, she advocates
higher commodity prices, better price
supports arid lower interest rates on
loans.
The parity for commodities now stands
at about 55 percent, she said. Farmers
would be helped by a parity of about 90
percent, she said.,
Bauer said the country should never
have another Payment in Kind program.
The program, rather than helping family
farmers, paid out checks to people who
didn't need them, she said. Instead, a
program should be formed to pay out
farmers on the basis of need rather than
a generalized program, she said.
Ti T
eorasfca seminars exvtore
women 's role in agriculture
Ey Kevin Wcras&e
Dai!y Nefcraskan Senior Editor
Efforts to increase information on the
perceptions of women in agriculture are
being made by the Nebraska in the World
program.
According to Elaine Stuhr, president ol
Nebraska Women in Farm Economics,
the program is aimed at increasing aware
ness of womens' roles in agriculture
throughout the state, the nation and
world.
Ten to 15 seminars are scheduled
throughout the state during the coming
year, said Stuhr, who introduced the pro
gram at World Fair Day on Tuesday. The
seminars will be led by resource teams of
fear or five women from Nebraska and
foreign countries, she said.
The seminars will be held throughout
the state and are scheduled for Alliance,
Sidney, York and Beatrice. Other cities
have yet to be determined, she said.
The seminars will include discussions
led by the resource teams. Ideas concern
ing agriculture in Nebraska and the world
will be exchanged, she said.
According to Stuhr, the seminars will
cover topics including the world food
supply and its economic significance,
world hunger, the use of food by diverse
cultures and the contribution of women
in meeting food needs worldwide.
Volunteers are being trained and the
first seminar is scheduled for January,
she said.
Nebraska volunteers include members
from the nine sponsoring organizations
and foreign volunteers include women
international students and international
students' wives, she said.
The program is administered through
the Foundation for Agricultural Educa
tion and Development, Inc., of Sidney,
and is partially funded by the US. Agency
for International Development
Stuhr ssid she hopes Nebraskans will
use and benefit from this "exciting, edu
cational program."
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Joel SsrtoreDaily Nebraskan
Winds take toll
Monday's high winds and pounding rain took their toll en umbrellas,
and Eieh Eletteer's was no exception. "It kind of got carried away by the
wind Metteer, a senior English major, said. "But it's enough to cover
yea, &t least until you get home."
Report says technical fields
discriminate against women
By Lisa Nutting
Daily Nebraskan Staff Reporter
Lois Morton wakes up about 6:30 a.rn.
every day. She makes breakfast for her
two sons, ages 4 and 9, gets ready for
work, and on the way to the office, leaves
the kids with the babysitter. By 8 a.m. she
is at work and ready to begin her day.
Morton is a wife, mother and a pro
fessional. She is the Data Processing
Operations Supervisor at the Lincoln
Telephone Company. She directly super
vises four people. She is in charge of com
puter hardware analysis. She checks the
computer system to be sure nothing goes
wrong. And Morton says she is just as
capable as any man.
"One thing to remember between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m., I'm a person a profes
sional," Morton said.
A report written by Elizabeth Broman,
a Princeton math student, says the under
representation of women in technical
fields is a problem in Nebraska.
"Much of the discrimination comes from
the attitudes that both women and men
have about what is appropriate for each
gender," Broman said in her report.
Roy Keller, UNL chairman and profes
sor of computer science, said times have
changed with respect to computer sci
ence. Keller said the ratio of women to men is
higher in computer science than in most
traditionally male fields. He approxi
mated that one-third of computer sci
ence students are women.
"There is probably still a hang-on that
science is for men, horae-ec for women,"
Keller said. "But by the time the current
group (grade-schoolers) comes through,
I think itH be completely gone."
Because computer science is a rela
tively new field, its door is open to both
men and women, Keller said. He also pre
dicts that in the next five years, the com
puter science field will expand rapidly
taking anyone who is qualified and supp
lying them with jobs.
And Keller said he sees no difference in
respect to academic achievement
women do just as well as men.
Most people in the computer science
field can't afford to worry about such
things, Keller said. If someone can do it,
we put them to it.
Broman's report also says that "these
attitudes have been socialized into gen
erations of boys and girls, beginning at
birth."
UNL Chemistry professor Margarie
Langell agrees.
"Cues are given to little girls to play
with dolls," she said. "Boys are more
aggressive."
Langell also believes there is a math
anxiety which keeps women away from
technical fields.
"Women are taught that they are not
supposed to like to do some things," Lan
gell said. They seem to not do them
because they tell themselves they can't."
Langell suggests that these attitude
changes need to begin in grade school
where sex roles begin.
Broman's report also says that although
more women are working in technical
fields than were 1 0 years ago, there still is
a greatly unequal representation of
women in these fields. Her report states
that only 4.4 percent of engineers in
Nebraska are women.
Rodney Soukup, UNL dean of electrical
engineering, said each year the number of
women in electrical engineering increases.
"I dont think the stereotype role holds
anymore," Soukup said.
Although electrical engineering enrolls
the least number of women of all engi
neering programs 20 out of 500 this
number is increasing.
There weren't any in my day," Soukup
said.
"We dont have many women, but most
of them are very good students," he said.
Soukup said he doesnt think there's a
problem of too few women because "it's a
choice anyone can make."
Morton said she's seeing more and
more women in technical fields but there
is still a long way to go.
